touched
→
mad, insane
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 6676 | to touch | → | to harm, damage | Open |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | massa (active) | |
| lexeme 2 | mussa (passive) | |
| meaning 1 | to touch (with hand) | massat bi-ka raḥim-u fulān-in The relationship of such a one is near to you. (as touching implies proximity) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | touched with madness, insanity, or by a devil; mad, insane | mussa bi-l-junūn-i He was, or became, touched with madness, or insanity (mad, insane). |
| reference | Lane: 2711-2712 | |
| comment | Note the same shift in active voice: massat-hu l-jinn-u 'the jinn, or genii touched him, i.e. affected him with madness'. By the way, the verb massa has various metaphorical meanings, like to strike (of anything annoying or hurtful that befals a man); to distress; to happen to smb, to betide; to take, etc. Also, mamsūs- means a man in whom is a touch, or stroke (Arb. مَسٌّ) of madness, insanity, or diabolical possession (Lane 2712). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | touched | |
| meaning 1 | past participle of touch | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | insane | |
| reference | ODE | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | тронутый (tronutyj) | |
| meaning 1 | touched | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | insane | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme 1 | läḵäfä | |
| lexeme 2 | ləḵuf | |
| meaning 1 | to touch with the fingertip, to rub lightly, to barely elbow s.o. | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | frivolous, thoughtless, stupid, scatterbrained, mentally disturbed, maniac | |
| reference | TED: 117 | |
| comment | ||